Welcome to the professional teaching page of Professor David A. Miller, intended to inform current and future students, as well as my colleagues, about who I am and how I approach teaching. For more information about my work as a theatre artist, please explore other pages on this site, include my current projects.

Approach to teaching: As an educator, I believe that students should be, first and foremost, engaged. I strive to include all students in the active pursuit of learning through the content area of the course we are currently exploring. Students are challenged to know, to understand and to be able to demonstrate learning through acting, directing, playwriting, and career development.

I am inspired by many of my own teachers who challenged me and cheered me on. And I am inspired by theatre artists, visual artists, and musicians. I regularly connect my theatre students to theatre professionals who have carved out careers as actors, playwrights, directors, casting directors, stage managers, and other roles, to inspire my students and to make tangible the possibilities for their own paths.

I love teaching and practicing theatre-making because it teaches not only how to act, direct, and write plays, but also creative and critical problem-solving, empathy, and discipline. These are the skills that any student, no matter what their major, can apply to their career and to their personal lives.

Courses at Bloomsburg University
Acting
Theatre 112: Fundamentals of Acting – Sample Syllabus for Course
Theatre 312 : Intermediate Acting
Theatre 412: Advanced Acting
Theatre 492: Seminars in Performance – Devised Theatre, Non-traditional Staging, Acting for the Camera, Voice Over Acting
Playwriting
Theatre 340: Playwriting
Theatre 490: Advanced Playwriting
Directing
Theatre 411: Directing
Theatre 492: Advanced Directing
Other Courses
Theatre 101 & 401: Incoming and Outgoing Career Seminars
Theatre 102: Introduction to Theatre
Theatre 202: Script Analysis
Theatre 318: Creative Drama as a Teaching Tool
Theatre 492: Seminar in Performance – New Play Development

Courses at Other Universities: Theatre Appreciation/Introduction to Theatre, Script Analysis, Oral Interpretation of Literature, Voice and Articulation, Teaching Dramatic Literature to High School Students, Theatre History, Public Speaking

If you are a teaching colleague or prospective teaching colleague interested in hiring David to teach or to direct at your institution, please contact David for access to a password-protected page with additional information and support documents.

If you have questions or would like to talk, visit the contact page.